ED-The coice is all the above for your son.

ED,

Am afraid your son may not have a choice but do them all. The thing is Kenyans should learn to accept and be proud of their own.  It's about time we stopped behaving like some nagging man whose wife always tried to please with no success.  It so happened that the morning that the wife gave him boiled eggs for breakfast, he always wished he had his breakfast eggs fried, and same applied on the days he was given fried eggs for breakfast instead.  So one morning, the wife got tired and prepared both but served him with boiled eggs first!  When he complained about them, he was given fried.  Surprisingly, he still wished he had been service with an egg which is half boiled and half fried for breakfast!  Am a little worried about whether American or the British would do where the local ones are not accepted.

The current unemployment situation may also have pushed employees to the wall such that most of them seem to have run out of excuses to give when overwhelmed by the number of qualified job seekers streaming into the job market every time that there is a vacant position.

That reminds me of one of my past jobs where they needed a young graduate to employ as an Admin. Assistant.  I didn't have the qualifications but I applied anyway.  Surprisingly, out of the 17 who were interviewed for the same position, I got the job.  And for the 3 years that I worked for this organization till I opted for greener pastures, I never understood why they insisted on a graduate in the first place for I never came across any challenges that I couldn't handle.  Neither did I understand why they never picked on any of the young graduates who were interviewed on that day.  YES, any of us could.

All in all, local or international, education is very expensive, it is very disturbing and painful when ones efforts and sacrifice to achieve whatever level goes unappreciated simply because they are either local or international.

Another case where employers are not being honest is on the job standards.  The other day I spotted a position re-advertised in the local newspapers.  I thought it would fit my brother's qualifications and before I went ahead and contacted him, I decided to google more about it where I noted it required somebody with background on The Prince2 project management methodology.  I went out of my way purchasing the prince2 software plus all the other related materials online to find out more about it.  To my disappointment, after spending all that much, I have come to realize there is not much difference between the Prince2 thing and the normal PMBOK (Project Management Book of Knowledge) methodology that we study back here in Kenya.  Only that Prince2 is the in thing right now and every organization would like to have something to do with it.  I mean, instead of re-advertising for the same position twice, why would they not just take in somebody with a management background and train on the difference?

So, employers, are we really being honest with ourselves before we start undermining our own?

Cheers.

Carole.